Gerard Manley Hopkins (July 28, 1844-June 8, 1889) was an English poet and artist. He was professor of classics at the University College in Dublin. The death of five nuns in a shipwreck in 1875 inspired him to composed The Wreck of the Deutschland, in which he stated in No. 28:
<Thou mastering me
God! giver of breath and bread;
World's strand, sway of the sea;
Lord of the living and dead;
Thou hast bound bones and veins in me,
fastened me flesh,
And after it almost unmade,
what with dread,
Thy doing: and dost thou touch me afresh?
Over again I feel thy finger and find thee.> 1844GH001
In No. 31, God's Grandeur, Gerard Manley Hopkins wrote:
<The world is charged with the grandeur of God.> 1844GH002
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Endnotes:
1844GH001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Gerard Manley Hopkins, No. 28, The Wreck of the Deutschland, st. I. John Bartlett, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1855, 1980), p. 655.
1844GH002. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Gerard Manley Hopkins, No. 31, God's Grandeur, l. I. John Bartlett, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1855, 1980), p. 655.